Austin, currently a legal director with Norton Rose, will join Hill Dickinson as a legal director in London. Following a strategic rearrangement of the firm’s mariner team, Joe Quain will return from Singapore as a consultant in London as Ian MacLean heads out to join the team in Singapore.

Bradley joins Hill Dickinson’s London offices from Clyde & Co as a partner. She has longstanding international maritime experience and a specific interest in the Korean market.

Choi, currently with Norton Rose, will join as a partner in Hill Dickinson’s Singapore office.

June 5 - A fire broke out aboard Höegh Autoliners’ ro-ro vessel Höegh Xiamen yesterday (June 4) at Blount Island, Jacksonville, USA; there are no injuries to any of the 21 crew members, who have all been evacuated from the vessel.